N/A Air gun reviews, the good, the bad and the ugly

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Does anybody have a source of true, unbiased air gun reviews?
Reviews where the reviewers do not gain anything by making the review ?

Negative reviews, is there a single negative review out there since I have not seen one?

The vast majority (90%+) of the air gun reviews are very positive.
Many air gun owners complain and have many bad things to say about their air guns.

I choose to trust the air gun owners who shoot thousands of pellets through their air guns, not the reviewers who may shoot a few hundreds (at best) and call it a day.
 
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This is what I posted on a YouTube review for the AEA SF:

I mostly like the reviews from Airgun Detectives (the review above).

I have an AEA HP SS in .22.
It is the generation that came before the AEA SF.
I have never had an air gun failing in so many ways:
-the bolt detaches from the rod which cocks the bolt every 2-3 magazines
-trigger fails because pellets get in the trigger area
-broken magazines, springs popping out
-unreliable semiauto action, may work with some pellets only, may work on Wednesdays but not Thursdays, basically random

Read the many frustrated posts of the AEA HP semiauto owners, on Airgun Nation for instance (which you are a member of).
There are several options why your air gun seems to work well:
-your airgun really works well
-your airgun was tuned before it was sent to you for review
-you got lucky (but I seriously doubt this)
-AEA SF is indeed performing in semiauto

When you have a single negative review please let me know because so far I have not seen one.
 
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Sawney Bean said:
I have some serious doubts about Airgun Detectives. Has he ever shot anything that wasn't a one hole group? I've watched a lot of his reviews and I can't remember one where the gun he was shooting delivered substandard accuracy.
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I can do a one hole group at any distance, if you pause the video and let me get the target and use a hole punch before you take it's picture.. problem is that with all the modern things you can't always trust pictures or videos.. it's sad but it used to be a man's word was good and a handshake was a good contract.. times have sure changed .. guess we just have to check best we can and fortunately we have this forum to ask others..
I don't mind fixing things and am good at it and sometimes I get discusted with waiting on parts and just make them.. I don't care to tune, just out of the box and shoot.. I never have tuned any gun.. but probably will.. should be good just like a Henry golden boy, load and shoot.. my American tactical liberty nova 22 PCP.. 8 years and it's always good.. unfortunately I suppose I have to rebuild it because it started leaking down to the regulator pressure in two weeks and then stays good at 2000 psi which I think is odd, I figured if it leaks down it would go to zero..
I guess we'll see.. I like to keep them full so they are ready at a moment notice.
mark
 
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Vetmx said:
It doesn’t matter when we think alike. Guys who buy off of a YouTube review get what they deserve. The ”influencer” thing is not new news anymore. People should be wiser by now.
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influencer is a really new term for me.. so thankful for this forum.. literally this is the only and closest I use for social media
Mark
 
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I think it is an information source, not THE source, and you should have multiple sources. I just bought my first general PCP rifle and YouTube was helpful. One thing I liked is a reviewer shot the rifle over a chronograph and showed a low deviation from shot to shot in addition to shooting small groups. Our rifle did the same when we got it so the video was helpful. On the flip side I seen people reference Hickok45 reviews for the basis of a gun purchase which I would not do just based on that.
 
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nobody1 said:
This is what I posted on a YouTube review for the AEA SF:

I mostly like the reviews from Airgun Detectives (the review above).

I have an AEA HP SS in .22.
It is the generation that came before the AEA SF.
I have never had an air gun failing in so many ways:
-the bolt detaches from the rod which cocks the bolt every 2-3 magazines
-trigger fails because pellets get in the trigger area
-broken magazines, springs popping out
-unreliable semiauto action, may work with some pellets only, may work on Wednesdays but not Thursdays, basically random

Read the many frustrated posts of the AEA HP semiauto owners, on Airgun Nation for instance (which you are a member of).
There are several options why your air gun seems to work well:
-your airgun really works well
-your airgun was tuned before it was sent to you for review
-you got lucky (but I seriously doubt this)
-AEA SF is indeed performing in semiauto

When you have a single negative review please let me know because so far I have not seen one.
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Hey, that sounds like you got the same one I got. I actually went thtough three AEA guns trying to find one that would work. *None* of them fully functional. Truly the bottom of the barrel in terms of my experience with manufactured goods.
 
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The classic problem with all reviewers is for them to write high quality, fully honest reviews they need:
1) To buy the product with their own money or borrow it from someone else who did.
2) significant time, interest, and skill to produce the actual review content
3) to maintain their following with lots of new content once they get going

Nobody can do that for very long out of the kindness of their own heart and wallet. I’m not knocking the many paid reviewers out there, but there is only so much they can say when the products are being given to them for testing. Also, we can all assume that when someone who sells or reviews guns shows off amazing accuracy, it’s the cherry picked example. It’s common knowledge in shooting that half of all barrels are below average and a tiny fraction are truly great, and that most of us, most of the time, don’t get a great performer.
 
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I started to lose faith when L.L. Bean and Orvis stopped posting negative reviews of their products many moons ago. They would sprinkle in a ‘few’ not so positive reviews, but that was it.

When I purchased a $500.00 item from Pyramid Air and left a one (1) star review, it never saw the light of day. As a result of their ‘selective reviews’, I now purchase items from Airguns of Arizona.
 
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